Word Meanings - TIRRALIRRA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn. The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak. "Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to TIRRALIRRA)

• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• VERBALIZE
  To convert into a verb; to verbify.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• VERBALITY
  The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression. "More verbality than matter." Bp. Hall.
• TIRRALIRRA
  A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn. The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak. "Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.
• VERBALLY
  1. In a verbal manner; orally. 2. Word for word; verbatim. Dryden.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.